Cutting elements by alpha

Question

Hi.I'm trying to cut elements in a document that has transparency (in this case lines of rasterized text) so that each element becomes a separate layer.I was wondering if there is anything in photoshop scripting that could help me with this.Ideally it would be something like cutting chunks that have more than X transparent pixels between them.Though from my understanding those kinds of operations are only possible with Pixel Bender which is now defunct?

c.pfaffenbichler · Accepted Answer

Check out http://forums.adobe.com/message/4272787#4272787http://www.ps-scripts.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=5190&sid=90a8895fe498927f07e9f1b0b049299a

EnsilZah · Answer

Well, I've made some progress since I posted.

My strategy is:

1. Stroke the document to the required amount of distance.

2. Select stroked pixels and convert selection to a path.

3. Convert the path's subpaths to individual paths <--- Haven't figured out this stage yet.

4. Select each individual path and cut from the original layer using this selection.

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